Murder suspect thought Puerto Rico gay teen was a woman

365gay has new information on the murder investigation surrounding the decapitation and dismemberment of Puerto Rican teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado.

According to friends of Lopez Mercado, the suspect’s house was radied by police, where they found a burned mattress and pvc pope, a wig, two knives and a “big blood …

Woman breaks the law, serves as a surrogate for single gay brother

A WOMAN is due to give birth to a child for her gay brother after impregnating herself with donor sperm from a third party – an act that is illegal in her home state of Queensland.
At the centre of the startling story, the homosexual man says pregnancy tests taken last month have proven that his sister is carrying what will become his first child.
The man, aged in his mid-twenties, said his older sister, who has two teenage children herself, agreed to carry a child for him earlier this year and became pregnant after being artificially inseminated with another man’s sperm.
It is not known if the child, due to be born early next year, will know the identity of its biological mother. It will not have interaction with the biological father.
“I understand that my own situation is a little different to what people would normally hear about,” the man told news.com.au in an email. See Woman a surrogate for single gay brother
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Carbondale woman receives honor from statewide gay rights group

A Carbondale woman was honored by one of the Midwest’s largest gay rights activism groups this past weekend.

Chicago-based Equality Illinois honored Paulette Curkin, retired coordinator of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Resource Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, at its annual black tie gala this weekend in Chicago. Other honorees included former state Senate President Emil Jones, state Rep. Greg Harris of Chicago and Kraft.

“It was a real honor,” Curkin said. “I think what it says is throughout the state, providing these kinds of resources is viewed as exceptional and important.” See Carbondale woman receives honor from statewide gay rights group
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Carbondale woman receives honor from statewide gay rights group

A Carbondale woman was honored by one of the Midwest’s largest gay rights activism groups this past weekend.

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In Wake of Prop 8, Attack on gay woman in Richmond reflects continuing trend

RICHMOND — News this week of arrests in the Dec. 13 gang rape of a lesbian brought relief to many in the community, some of whom were so outraged that they led police to breaks in the case.

But even as the resolution is lauded, gay-rights advocates and local and national crime statistics portray a gloomy truth about hate crimes against people based on their sexual orientation.

Until the root causes of bias toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are addressed, “we’ll continue to have hate perpetrated against us,” said Shawna Virago, a program director for the San Francisco-based advocacy group Community United Against Violence.

The group reported 304 crimes against Bay Area gays in 2007, the latest year for which complete statistics were available. That amounted to an approximate 6 percent increase from 2006.

Nationally, the FBI recorded 1,265 crimes deemed to have been motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation in 2007, a slight increase from the 1,195 tallied a year earlier but a 24 percent jump from 2005 figures.

Data compiled by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs — which counts the San Francisco group among its members — show national numbers to be considerably higher, from 1,486 incidents in 2006 to 1,833 the following year.

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